
Episode 145: “Tomorrow Never Knows” by the Beatles
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The Death of a Psychopath
Vamdas was another psychologist at the centre for personality research, and he would be leary's closest collaborator. The two were determined to revolutionize academic psychology. While on holiday in quernevaca in mexico, a linguist and anthropologist he knew lothar nouth mentioned that one of the old women in the area collected those mushrooms that barron had been talking about. Lavy decided that that might be a fun thing to do on his holiday, and took a few salasibin mushrooms. He called it 'the deepest religious experience of my life'
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